Word: trade
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...film is set in an age tipping from medieval to modern, from the doddering aristocracy of the Galactic Republic to the brutal opportunism of the Trade Federation, which has blocked all shipping routes to the planet Naboo. Qui-Gon and his Jedi apprentice Obi-Wan are dispatched to settle the dispute. Reaching Naboo, they are befriended--hounded, really--by Jar Jar, a disaster-prone outcast of the Gungan race. He leads them to Amidala the Naboo Queen, whom they intend to take to the Republic's assembly in Coruscant. Engine trouble forces them to detour to Tatooine, where...
...Gore the Vice President has been an influential adviser and workhorse for the Clinton Administration on many issues, including trade, with his high-profile trouncing of Ross Perot in a NAFTA debate; foreign policy, with his up-front role in the Kosovo crisis; and technology, where he has championed the multibillion-dollar effort to wire all schools to the Internet (even if he didn't create...
Neither can Elizabeth Doherty, assistant dean for academic planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, or Elaine Bernard, who directs the Trade Union Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
This year, though, simply making history will not be enough. A challenge from the trade school down the river has been issued, and it is up to you answer it. This year MIT has chosen Thomas L. Magliozzi and Raymond F. Magliozzi to speak at its graduation, two men you've probably never heard of. Neither, to be honest, had we. These two men are better known as Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers. respected Cambridge auto mechanics and MIT graduates. They are also co-hosts of Car Talk, a syndicated radio program broadcast from the offices of Dewey, Cheetham...
...store's main source of profit comes not from its textbook division but from other wares, such as trade books, clothing and dorm room furnishings...